I moved into a lake house with my parents for the Summer before it's off to Orlando for Full Sail. Honestly, I wouldn't really mind if it turned out they couldn't afford to send me and I wound up going to a real art school in an area that isn't the retarded little brother of LA. Fickle me! So when I bought my computer 2 or 3 years ago, - when Tom did anyway heh heh- I opted not to get the wireless version for a little more dough. I mean when am I really going to need wireless? Whoopsies!! Now in order to use the wireless internet in my house I'm gonna have to drop $180 for an Apple router. Don't ask me the specifics on that, I really don't know exactly why, but this is what my brother tells me and what I failed to grasp when he explained it to me three times. Long story short I has no internets on my computer. I'm posting this from my dad's iMac G5 upstairs. I also don't have TV. That's all eat shit bye.
I'm an illustrator, animator, and graphic designer.
Age 36, Male
Full Sail University
Boston
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dude dont drop 180 on a fucking apple router. I have all macs but jesus h christ, the linksys routers are like 50-60 bucks and work FINE.
Well we already have a Linksys router, but... well... Dude actually now that I'm looking at the Apple site I have no idea why my brother is saying I need to buy an Airport Extreme when apparently the Airport Express we already have won't work with my computer. It has something to do with my dad not wanting to pay to drill holes for wires in the house we're renting... but I still don't see how a more expensive router is gonna help. Maybe my dad's in cahoots with my brother to scam me into buying a fancy brand new router. Something's weird here.
I talked to him tonight and figured it out. In order for my computer to use the Airport Express we have it needs to both join the network established by the router and relay it through, in this case, ethernet. Because the Linksys router we have wired in isn't certified... W-something... I dunno... the Airport Express can't access it for relaying the signal, only joining it. So I can plug in the Airport Express and it will receive a wireless signal, but it can't relay that signal to my computer.
But, there still isn't a reason to buy the Airport Extreme. It turns out my brother has another Airport Express that he isn't using, so he's going to come over and use that to replace the Linksys so that the Airport Express we have hooked up to my computer can both join the wireless network and relay it to my computer through ethernet.
Something like that. He's getting married next weekend so we may not be able to get this shit done until after the wedding (I'm the best man sweet cool), but either way, internet's a comin'.
ngfan14
It seems like your life is going to suck for a while.